ADJECTIVE ACTIVITY

ADJECTIVES

This is a simple yet exciting activity that you can conduct in your class to teach or reinforce your students understanding on adjectives. I actually did this activity in my class for a one period lesson and the students loved it.

STEPS

1. To grab students attention, you can show them random pictures or videos of a person, object or even animal. The picture or video must be clear enough for the students to make the shape out (well they are going to describe it).

2. Discuss with your students what the video or picture is about. By this time, your students should already be pouring tonnes of adjective just trying to describe what they just saw.

3. Tell your students that you are going to show them the video or pictures again. This time, tell them to write as many words describing the focus of video/pictures as they can. For intermediate or lower proficiency students, you can play or show it twice (if its not enough, find somehting very simple).

4. Once the session is done, discuss the answers with the students. You can even make students describe what they saw individually (this could be use as examples on how to use it or as a test to see if they know how to use it).

5. You can either explain to them what adjectives are or you can make them guess which part of speech do the words fall into.

6. For homework, you could ask your students to describe the items in their roo at home or their friends room.

EXTRA

> For advance students, you could try showing them fast . paced montages (i.e. the 'Llama Song' video) and have them write one adjectives for each picture that they see. See how many adjectives can the students come up with.

> Adjectives can also be a very fun ice breaking session. Have your students sit in a huge circle holding a paper each with their name on it. Pass the paper to the person sitting on their right and have that person write a sentence describing the person whose name is on the paper. Repeat till everyone has describe everyone in the class. Teacher can also join the game to make it more interesting.